The 2017 Paul Hunter Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in August 2017 at the Stadthalle in Fürth, Germany. It was the third ranking event of the 2017/2018 season. The tournament is named in honour of former snooker professional, Paul Hunter.

Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost 1–4 to Michael White in the fourth round. White went on to beat Shaun Murphy 4–2 in the final, capturing his second world ranking title.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: Winner: £20,000 Runner up: £10,000 Semifinals: £4,500 Quarterfinals: £3,000 Last 16: £1,725 Last 32: £1,000 Last 64: £600 Total: £100,000

Main rounds

Top half Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Notes

Final Final: Best of 7 frames. Referee: Martyn Royce.Stadthalle, Fürth, Germany, 27 August 2017. Shaun Murphy 2–4 Michael White 0–79, 27–72, 84–0 (84), , , 84 Highest break 97 0 Century breaks 0 1 50+ breaks 2

Amateur pre-qualifying These matches were played in Fürth on 22–24 August 2017. All matches were best of 7 frames.

Round 1

Thomas Frank 3–4 Norbert Hofheinz Daniel Williams 0–4 Matthew Glasby Mike Finn w/o–w/d Mika Hummelin Andreas Volkert 0–4 Andy Symons Wojciech Pastor 4–3 Daniel Schneider Corina Maracine w/o–w/d Dragos-Bogdan Dorojan Joshua Sellar 3–4 Lewis Sinclair Ismail Türker 4–1 Stefan Gerst Jenson Kendrick 4–1 Thomas Goder Conor McCormack 4–1 Jürgen Kesseler Umut Dikme 4–0 Felix Frede Alex Taubman 4–0 Bhavesh Sodha Reggie Edwards 4–1 Wan Chooi Tan Daniel Ward 4–0 Mike Beneke Amedeo Durnez 4–1 Matthew Hudson Patrick Whelan 2–4 Dillon McGee Luke Pinches 2–4 Zack Richardson Hans Bergmann 0–4 Robin Otto Brian Cini 4–2 Michael Wild Scott Lyons 0–4 Declan Brennan Tony Corrigan 1–4 Jamie Cope Luis Vetter 3–4 Louis Wakelin Andrew Rogers 4–1 Ronny Buchholz Jiaming Zhang 1–4 Ben Jones Tony Drago 4–0 Peter Brehm Jeff Cundy 4–1 Christof Biniarsch Andrew Molyneux 4–0 Heiko Mutz Michael Drews 3–4 Stefan Joachim Reanne Evans 4–3 Soner Sari Imran Nisar 4–0 Tomas Vastenavondt Joshua Cooper 4–0 Maria Catalano Rolf Mahr 0–4 Aaron Graham Billy Ginn 4–1 Aaron Cook

Jens Kirchner 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Alkojah Omar 1–4 Andy Hicks Heikki Niva 4–0 Pedro Chacon Ron Kantor 0–4 Andreas Hartung John Parkin 4–1 Tom Zimmermann Harvey Chandler 4–1 Lieven Vanthournout Sam Thistlewhite 4–0 Kevin Chan Lee Mein 4–1 Paul Liebstreich Boris Lazarkov 0–4 Stefan Dohr Louis Heathcote 4–1 Hamim Hussain Hassan Glumcevic-Kaufmann 0–4 Gary Thomson Antoni Kowalski 4–0 Michael Buchholz Adam Edge 4–1 Fraser Patrick Jörg Petersen 2–4 David Church Luis Chacon 0–4 Michael Williams Michael Collumb 3–4 Joshua Thomond Andrew Milliard 3–4 Luca Kaufmann Kilian Baur-Pantoulier 3–4 Simon Dent Billy Brown 0–4 Barry Pinches Tudor Simion Popescu 4–2 Ali Kirim Robert James 4–2 John Foster Ryan Causton 4–0 Sascha Breuer Fabian Monnin 4–3 Mihai Vladu Dietmar Smolka 0–4 Luke Simmonds Jamie O'Neill Jackson Page Kacper Filipiak 4–0 Frank Mikulsky Gregory Herbrecht 4–2 Carl Rosenberger Tyler Rees 4–0 Shahidul Islam Fabian Haken 4–1 Fabian Meulner Marvin Losi 3–4 Andrei Orzan Stefan Schenk 1–4 Patrick Einsle Ashley Carty 4–0 Anthony Blyth

Round 2

Marcin Nitschke 4–0 Norbert Hofheinz Christophe Rives-Lange 0–4 Matthew Glasby Oliver Kremp 0–4 Mike Finn Anton Woywod 0–4 Andy Symons Steven Hallworth 4–0 Wojciech Pastor Horst Bendig 4–1 Corina Maracine Kishan Hirani 4–0 Lewis Sinclair Jinyoung Foulger 4–2 Ismail Türker Brian Ochoiski 4–3 Jenson Kendrick Saqib Nasir 4–1 Conor McCormack Manasawin Phetmalaikul 1–4 Umut Dikme Michael Peyr 0–4 Alex Taubman Florian Nüßle 4–0 Reggie Edwards Mark Vincent Daniel Ward Halim Hussain 0–4 Amedeo Durnez Daniel Holoyda 4–2 Dillon McGee Mario-Željo Miloševic 0–4 Zack Richardson Martin Pitcher 1–4 Robin Otto Markus Fischer 0–4 Brian Cini Gary Challis 1–4 Declan Brennan Ralf Günzel 0–4 Jamie Cope Thomas Blang 0–4 Louis Wakelin Nev Graham 2–4 Andrew Rogers Robert Read 4–3 Ben Jones Curtis Daher 1–4 Tony Drago Jamie Clarke 4–1 Jeff Cundy Jack Bradford 3–4 Andrew Molyneux Adam Stefanow 4–0 Stefan Joachim Jan Eisenstein 2–4 Reanne Evans Ejler Hame 0–4 Imran Nisar Kuldesh Johal 4–1 Joshua Cooper Thomas Kevern 4–1 Aaron Graham Mateusz Baranowski 4–0 Billy Ginn

John Gillard 0–4 Brandon Sargeant Stephane Ochoiski 2–4 Andy Hicks Mohammad Al Asfar 0–4 Heikki Niva Peter Devlin 4–0 Andreas Hartung Joe O'Connor 4–1 John Parkin Loris Lehmann 0–4 Harvey Chandler Regis D'Anna 0–4 Sam Thistlewhite Nicolai Gebhardt 0–4 Lee Mein Hu Hao Stefan Dohr Wayne Brown 1–4 Louis Heathcote Josh Mulholland 3–4 Gary Thomson James Cahill Antoni Kowalski Andreas Ploner 3–4 Adam Edge Jake Nicholson 4–0 David Church Joe Steele w/d–w/o Michael Williams Clayton Humphries 1–4 Joshua Thomond Vedant Kulkarni w/d–w/o Sean McAllister Abdullah Atmar Ghulam Jilani 0–4 Luca Kaufmann George Pragnall 4–1 Simon Dent Bernd Strnad 0–4 Barry Pinches Volker Grigo 0–4 Tudor Simion Popescu Jani Kananen 0–4 Robert James Charlie Walters 4–2 Ryan Causton Oliver Brown 4–0 Fabian Monnin Simon Brtyant 0–4 Luke Simmonds Nitin Sharma w/d–w/o Jackson Page Karol Lelek 0–4 Kacper Filipiak Stuart Watson 4–0 Gregory Herbrecht Marc J Davis 4–2 Tyler Rees Barry Mincher 0–4 Fabian Haken Roman Dietzel 4–3 Andrei Orzan Ben Mertens 2–4 Patrick Einsle Simon Lichtenberg 2–4 Ashley Carty

Round 3

Marcin Nitschke 1–4 Matthew Glasby Mike Finn 0–4 Andy Symons Steven Hallworth 4–0 Horst Bendig Kishan Hirani 4–2 Jinyoung Foulger Brian Ochoiski 0–4 Saqib Nasir Umut Dikme 4–0 Alex Taubman Florian Nüßle 2–4 Daniel Ward Amedeo Durnez 3–4 Daniel Holoyda Zack Richardson 4–1 Robin Otto Brian Cini 4–3 Declan Brennan Jamie Cope 4–0 Louis Wakelin Andrew Rogers 2–4 Robert Read Tony Drago 3–4 Jamie Clarke Andrew Molyneux 0–4 Adam Stefanow Reanne Evans 4–2 Imran Nisar Kuldesh Johal 4–1 Thomas Kevern Mateusz Baranowski 0–4 Brandon Sargeant

Andy Hicks 4–1 Heikki Niva Peter Devlin 3–4 Joe O'Connor Harvey Chandler 4–3 Sam Thistlewhite Lee Mein 4–0 Stefan Dohr Louis Heathcote 4–0 Gary Thomson Antoni Kowalski 2–4 Adam Edge Jake Nicholson 1–4 Michael Williams Joshua Thomond 4–2 Sean McAllister Luca Kaufmann 0–4 George Pragnall Barry Pinches 4–0 Tudor Simion Popescu Robert James 4–1 Charlie Walters Oliver Brown 4–0 Luke Simmonds Jackson Page 2–4 Kacper Filipiak Stuart Watson 2–4 Marc J Davis Fabian Haken 0–4 Roman Dietzel Patrick Einsle 1–4 Ashley Carty

Century breaks Main rounds centuries Total: 24

143 Mark Selby 142 Dominic Dale 132 Paul Davison 132 Kyren Wilson 124 Fergal O'Brien 123, 120, 104 Mark Joyce 123 Martin O'Donnell 122 Mark King 119, 102, 100 Jamie Jones

115 Nigel Bond 114 Jak Jones 109 Kurt Maflin 107, 106 Gary Wilson 107, 106 Ben Woollaston 105 Liam Highfield 104 Shaun Murphy 103 Tom Ford 100 Alan McManus

Amateur pre-qualifying stage centuries 117 Ashley Carty 107, 103 Barry Pinches 105 Jamie Cope 102 Andy Hicks 102 Adam Stefanow 101 Louis Heathcote

References